Let’s start with the easiest sell — the proposed United States Olympic Museum. We think the museum, in the home city of the United States Olympic Committee, is an outstanding idea and would almost certainly bring out-of-state visitors and prominent events.

The city also is asking for tax incentives to help build a new visitor center for the U.S. Air Force Academy. The existing center is hard to access for visitors because of tight security and its location. The proposed center, right inside the academy’s gates, would very likely attract more visitors, and a good number from out of state.

The city is also asking for incentives to help build a sports medicine and performance center at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs ostensibly to help with wounded veterans and injured athletes, among others. This sounds like a valuable asset for the community, but will it truly bring out-of-state tourists to the city? A few medical centers around the country do, we realize. But we’ll be interested in what the third-party review says about the prospects for this one.

Finally, the city is asking for incentives to help build a new multipurpose stadium to serve its local minor-league baseball team and host other events. City officials did not suggest to us that the stadium by itself will bring out-of-state tourists, but instead that the facility will enhance and extend a visitor’s stay.

We don’t doubt it, but we also doubt that was the purpose of the RTA.

What we see in the City for Champions proposal is one really solid project, one with high potential, one that needs more vetting and one that just doesn’t fit at all. But could the Economic Development Commission choose to fund just some of the projects or must it OK the whole package?

State officials say there’s nothing in the law that prevents the projects from being severable, but there’s also no specific legal opinion on the issue. We think a legal opinion should be sought, and if it says the projects are non-severable, state lawmakers should seek to remedy this problem next year.

Colorado Springs is a great city, and these projects would only improve the community — but each must meet the purpose of the RTA.